Evening all. Police Constable George Dixon here to report more rum doings at Dock Green. The Home Office has given the Christian Police Association(CPA) £10,000 to fight crime with the power of prayer.

The CoAct Adopt A Cop project will fund Christians and police working together in the community.

A CPA co-ordinator at each police station tells churches what needs praying about and CoAct have also issued a list of general guidelines that include praying for:

• Neighbourhood police officers

[bpsdb] Every so often I read a story that seems to have a lot more going on behind the scenes than the tabloid hack summary suggests. Just such a story cropped up on my radar this morning, involving a Christian nurse who was allegedly suspended for offering prayers to her patients. It's the latest in a long line of similar stories that have appeared in the press recently, from the Christian counsellor who was disciplined for refusing to give advice to homosexuals, to the Christian pharmacist who wouldn't sell contraceptive pills. The stories are related for obvious reasons, but in the press today a name appeared, and from that name and a bit of searching around I found that there is another, more interesting connection between these stories.

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